QSA assembles a broad breadth of talent from 15 member institutions in North America, many of whom have pioneered today’s quantum information science (QIS) and technology capabilities. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory leads QSA with Sandia National Laboratories as lead partner.
Since its founding, QSA has co-designed powerful programmable quantum prototypes that maximize the performance of current noisy quantum hardware in three major platforms: neutral atoms, trapped ions, and superconducting circuits. Furthermore, it has advanced the algorithms and platform-specific applications specifically constructed for near-term, imperfect hardware for scientific computing, materials science, and fundamental physics.
The 2024 U.S Quantum Information Science Summer School (USQIS) is the second joint summer school facilitated by the five U.S Department of Energy National Quantum Information Science Research Centers (NQISRCs): the Quantum Science Center (QSC), the Quantum Systems Accelerator (QSA), Q-NEXT, the Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage, and the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center.
Undergraduate students in their junior (third) or senior (fourth) year, graduate students, and postdocs and early-career researchers are invited to apply.
The Quantum Computing, Mathematics, and Physics summer camp (QCaMP) has been QSA’s innovative yearly educational program since 2022 for high school students and teachers in underrepresented communities in STEM from New Mexico and California, two of the nation’s majority-minority states.
“Co-design is critical. It is bringing together the hardware developments, devices, algorithms, and engineering solutions to deliver certified quantum advantage. That’s actually a very interesting challenge on its own. How do you know you actually have quantum advantage? And we do this specifically for scientific applications…” Bert de Jong, Director
